Accepted name

Licea parasitica (Zukal) G.W. Martin, Mycologia 34(6):702 (1942) [see pdf]

[Zukal's specific epithet was chosen because the species was supposed to be parasitic on lichens; Santesson, Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 42:47. 1948, believed that the slimy rosaceous mass which Zukal thought was the plasmodium was in reality Illosporium roseum, an imperfect fungus parasitic on lichens, hence Zukal's name could be regarded as a nomen confusum and invalid. The retention of Zukal's epithet may be justified by application of the second paragraph of art. 9 of the 1961 code (art. 9.9 and 9.12 of the St. Louis code, 2000). In this case it is clearly possible to eliminate the Illosporium as merely one of the fungi present on the substratum. Few, if any, Myxomycetes collected in the field are without accompanying fungi. In this view, Dr. Santesson concurs. See more notes in Martin & Alexopoulos, Myxomycetes 47. 1969]